Easy take: calling linear algebra “quantum physics” and “artificial intelligence” is hype. Deeper: the huge influx of physicists into AI has produced an intellectual monoculture that isn’t capable of addressing key problems in the field.https://twitter.com/WIRED/status/1181437300414275584 …
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Replying to @Meaningness
Why do you think physicists have created a monoculture? Because no one told them "this technique isn't unique to quantum mechanics"? It really is a bit odd for a physicist to claim that since pre-quantum era physicists already used it.
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Replying to @NeuroStats
I meant that “AI” has mostly narrowed to fiddling with backpropagation hyperparameters. Sometimes just empirically, but if there’s insight to be had, it’s from thinking about the energy surface and stuff. There’s value in this, but there’s a lot of problems it doesn’t address.
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Replying to @Meaningness @NeuroStats
BTW, I wasn’t subtweeting you specifically; three other people I respect also quote-tweeted the Wired piece with comments along the lines of “quantum wtf?” And you were all quite right to do so!
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FWIW, I think progress in AI comes from the collision and synergy of diverse intellectual cultures; it's a necessarily hybrid field. I wrote about that here:https://meaningness.com/metablog/artificial-intelligence-progress …
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